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April 28: The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News are sold to a group of lenders at a bankruptcy auction. (Philadelphia Inquirer) April 12: Reporters Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman for the Philadelphia Daily News win the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. view - talk - history. March. view - talk - history. February
From top left, clockwise: the magnitude 8.8 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; the 2010 Winter Olympics are held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion and subsequent oil spill becomes the worst marine oil spill in history; the 2010 FIFA World ...
NewsTilt – A news website for independent professional journalists is launched. [52] April 15 – President Barack Obama delivers a major speech on the future of NASA's human spaceflight program. He commits to increasing NASA funding by $6 billion over five years and completing the design of a new heavy-lift launch vehicle by 2015 and to ...
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was a major ecological disaster from April through September 2010. [48] A renegotiated free trade agreement with South Korea went into effect on December 3, 2010. [49] The 2010 United States elections resulted in major victories for the Republican Party. [50]
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In 2010, a number of events took place in organized crime. On the first day of the year, reporter Jose Luis Romero was kidnapped for reporting on the Mexican Mafia. While investigating the kidnapping, policeman Jesus Escalante was killed. The Mexican Drug War is an armed conflict taking place between rival drug cartels and government forces in ...
Disasters More than 50 people are injured in an oil pipeline blast in northeastern Iran. (Press TV) Thousands of people are evacuated in Delhi over flooding fears. (BBC) (The Hindu) (The Times of India) The death toll from the fire in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno in the U.S. state of California, reaches 4, with 50 other people injured. (ABC News America) A large fish kill, consisting ...
Disasters Indonesia The death toll from the recent eruption of Mount Merapi in Indonesia rises to 32 as it erupts again. (CNN), (BBC) The death toll from the tsunami rises to at least 343. (CBC) (Jakarta Globe) Two volcanoes erupt on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, Klyuchevskaya Sopka and Shiveluch, forcing flights to divert and spewing volcanic ash over the nearby town of Ust-Kamchatsk. (AP ...